Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-16

Recommend such removal to the point which will
be indicated in this report as the most generally
adv ntagaous one for the proposed union railroad
passenger depot
.,o", At may be well to state at this place that,
In the solicitude which your committee has felt to
harmonic, as far proper, all interests, It has
both formally and informally endeavored to ascPr
tain the wishes OF all the railroad companies In
terested. Their several positions appear to be
these: The Baltimore and Potomac Co., while
willing TO concede, perhaps, that our city steam
railroad problem should be capable OF solution,
are so well sat'sfitd-as well they may be-that
they prefer to be "let alone" The southern con-
nection-the Piedmont Air Line Co-while content
to such a solution as would bring them into con-
nection with the Baltimore and Ohio system as
well as that which they now have with the Penn
Sylvanfa system through the Baltimore and POtO-
mac line. The Baltimore and Ohio Co. evidently
desire that connection, and, through its O1cials,
union depot that you choose; give us equal GILL
ties with other railroad companies, and we will
ind our way to reach It,"
Your committee, after full elaboration upon all
the circumstances and interests heretofore re-
cited, has concluded TO recommend and does re-
commend as permanent site for said Union Rail-
road Passenger Depot, the irregular square, -FOUR
blocks south OF the Capitol grounds, bounded by
South Capitol street, Virginia and New Jersey
avenues and street southeast. being part OF
what is known as observation IL"
In order TO reach a Union Railroad Passenger
Depot at this point the general lines OF track now
used by the Baltimore and Potomac and Piedmont
Air Line. would need but slight change. The
change In those OF the Baltimore and Ohio would
be much greater; but, In the opinion or your COM
mttee, that change, great and expensive as it
must be-, will be more than made up to that CON-
pany by being placed on an equ lily with its great
rival, instead OF at its present disadvantage
VARIOUS PLANS PROPOSED.
Your committee has very carefully considered
number OF propositions bearing upon such change.
among them these:
fa.) The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Co., through
It's officials, has expressed to your committee IT'S
desire to make such change by bringing It's Wash
tngtOn and Metropolitan branches together at a
point north OF the boundary OF the city in such a
manner that the Two lines WIN enter the CITY as
northeast, and from that point follow sOutherly
the line OF I'd street east mostly In tunnel to the
Intersection OF % street and North Carolina ave-
nue. southeast; thence weStwardly to the proposed
union railroad passenger depot, on Reservation IL.
BY this plan only two str cts in the northeast
srade % *
passing into a tunnel at street northeast and
emerging from 1t at North Carolina avenue SOUTH
grade on I'd street east from Boundary to X street
south, together with the railroad grade involved
(bJ The Baltimore and Ohio Company seemingly
suggested to your committee as an alternative
proposition line through Sd street east which
ciseiy the same relation TO street grades as their
tc.J Tne plan OF The late Engineer Commissioner
Twining Senate Mis- Doc. Is. 1st Sess. Forty
seventh COngresS) TO unite the two branches OF
the Baltimore ana Ohio Railroad at point outside
the city limits lett to the slectlon OF The company;
thence into the City at Boundary street the line
OF 18th street east, on grade, to street, after
crossing which the rails would enter tunnel at the
tinue in tunnel southwark d wn 18th street. under
Lincoln Park, and from thence down the line OF
North Carolina avenue TO the west building line OF
I'd street east, whence emerging from tunnel they
might curve westwardly into Reservation IL.
d. The preferred plan OF Lieut. Greene u. s. A.,
assistant engineer to the late Engineer Comnis.
Siop I vdp n N n for
1882, p. 145), OF which, alluding In hs report on
the subject to the necessity Of moving the Balti-
OF the city, he says: "There are only two methods
BY which this can be accomplished, either by
passing around Capitol Hill or tunneling u.der it
ON the first route the two branches would be
united outside the city limits near the Fair
grounds, and would then run to the Eastern
Dassine around The base OF the bun east Of the the
Jail, meeting the Baltimore and Potomac line near
Tue congressional Cemetery. 1t is claimed that
two roads. II that is the case the baltimore and
ONO snoa ce To- ba Of ne 70 6ad
width Of Virginia avenue is ample for this pur-
p0se."
(e) The alternative plan Of Lieut. Greene GbidD
OF uniting the Two branches OF the Baltimore and
Ohio near the FAIR grounds, and entering the city
at grade along 18th street northeast, Following
nndsr Isan t and Moth ca HS MAJ
another route under Maryland avenue, I'd street
and North Carolina avenue" the tunnel in either
case ending tat the Intersection OF North caro-
lima and New Jersey avenues" where Reservation
a. plan uniting the two branches Of the Bal
timore and ohio at some point norm OF the boun-
dairy, and thence entering the city, and crossing
1t, mainly by tunnel along and und 18th street
east and North Carolina avenue TO Reservation ~
W9 A plan 50 uniting the two branches, and
thence crossing the ssy, mainly Da sy tunnel along
nue. 10 the said Reservation IL.
(h.) A plan similarly uniting the two branchesof
Potomac, at some point In the nelghborh0Od OF
B.adensburg or Ayattsvtlle, and thence across the
Eastern Branch on The present lines OF the Balti.
more and Potomac Company.
After most careful consideration Of the above
plans and all others that have been submitted.
your committee Is decidedly OF the opinion that
one OF the Two plans hereinafter set forth, should
or these two routes, the one Is for the most part
surface route and with Sigh; modification IS the
plan above mentioned as the preferred plan OF
The other Is similar to the plan nrst above men,
toned Gay except that 1t proposes the line OF 18th
street In place OF the line OF IA street.
RECOMMENDATIONS A 10 RouTEa ETC
Your committee having given anxious and care
ful consideration to the several important matters
submitted, and, having in the foregoing summary
endeavored 20 present . succinct statement OF the
points involved, most respectfully and earnestly
recommend tnat all reasonable efforts be made TO
l.. That one general passenger depot be perma-
nently established, 70 Be used BY all railroads
leading into thecity At the site heretofore stated
Company and the Aiexa ndria and washington
Railroad Company be each guaranteed such use Of
streets for the Transportation OF passenger trains
as may be necessary 70 give them convenient use
or the general passenger depot.
| 3 That the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pay ne astnc,i.ed and REQUIRED 70 conform iu
following UkaDH. That Ii 70 onys